Problem with SSD

eliasboss3 · April 25

My friend recently couldn't boot his computer and got sent straight to the bios despite it working perfectly the day before. He since then has bought a new harddrive and it's working seemlessly which led us to believe the old one could be faulty. However, he has some files there that are important as well as the fact we both are bummed and stubborn and left to wonder if there are any potential fixes.

So to get to what we are able to see, inside of the diskmanager the "faulty" drive shows up as a unknown device with every information blank. As well as when it was plugged in along side the new ssd it took about 5 minutes to boot but without sending us to the bios. I'll attach some photos and help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Blasty Blosty · April 25

Could you try the SSD in another machine?

Tan3l6 · April 25

Perhaps try the SSD in another slot or in another PC.

Though seems it's gone bad.

eliasboss3 · April 25

1 minute ago, Blasty Blosty said:

Could you try the SSD in another machine?

Unable to do that in current moment, it's just that the other one works fine that makes us think that shouldn't be an issue!

eliasboss3 · April 25

1 minute ago, Tan3l6 said:

Perhaps try the SSD in another slot or in another PC.

Though seems it's gone bad.

If it has gone bad, is there a way to recover any files from it or is it doomed...

Kilrah · April 25

That, try it in another machine, possibly from a live linux boot... if it's recognised with proper capacity you can use e.g. ddrescue to make an image of it and hopefully mount it then, if it still freezes or doesn't get recognised correctly there's nothing you'll be able to do outside of using a data recovery company.

eliasboss3 · April 25

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

That, try it in another machine, possibly from a live linux boot... if it's recognised with proper capacity you can use e.g. ddrescue to make an image of it and hopefully mount it then, if it still freezes or doesn't get recognised correctly there's nothing you'll be able to do outside of using a data recovery company.

Ahh, alright. Thanks a lot! We'll look into how to use linux as we both are unfamiliar with how to use and install that os. Praying for the sake of our uni projects!